Subject: Re: clisp: compile Lisp program to stand alone binary?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1998/10/06
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3116663895330295@naggum.no>
* trashcan@david-steuber.com (David Steuber "The Interloper")
| In the windows world, C or C++ can be compiled into a single
| executable image. There is no need to rely on a C/C++ compiler or run
| time environment to run the program.
well, in that case, you can dump a Lisp world into a new image, too.
the image my current client runs on Allegro CL 5.0 has pre-dumped over
300 patches and new functions and advice and such. when the application
is ready to be run directly (it's loaded from a concatenated FASL file
now), it'd be a piece of cake to load it before dumping yet another
image.
| I don't want to rely on the pre-existance of CLISP (or any other lisp)
| on another machine. I also want the code to compile into machine
| code, not some byte interpreted code.
only Emacs Lisp and CLISP of the commonly supported Lisps produce byte
code. all others produce machine code. _that_ should be the least of
your worries, actually.
#:Erik